Privacy policy

This is an English trans­la­tion of the Polish privacy policy, provided for con­veni­ence. In case of any dis­crep­ancy, the Polish version pre­vails.

Privacy protection

Rakowski & Part­ners Law Office is the con­trol­ler of the per­sonal data of its clients, clients’ contact persons and persons whose data are provided by clients, where this is neces­sary to perform the service. To the extent that the law office pro­cesses such per­sonal data in order to provide legal assist­ance, it becomes their con­trol­ler by oper­a­tion of law.

The law office also pro­cesses the per­sonal data of persons who take part in events organ­ised by us, apply for a job, work for us or provide ser­vices to us.

Purposes and grounds of processing

We process data for the fol­low­ing pur­poses:

• provision of legal services,
• responding to enquiries sent through the contact form on the website,
• recruitment and employment,
• marketing to the extent permitted by the professional self-governing bodies,
• compliance with legal obligations.

Through the contact form we process your name, e-mail address and the content of your message.

Depend­ing on the purpose of pro­cessing, the legal basis for pro­cessing is Article 6(1) of the GDPR, as applic­able: point (a) (consent), point (b) (neces­sity for the per­form­ance of a con­tract or for taking steps prior to enter­ing into a con­tract at the request of the data subject), point (c) (com­pli­ance with a legal oblig­a­tion to which the con­trol­ler is subject) or point (f) (the legit­im­ate interests pursued by the con­trol­ler).

The law office does not make decisions con­cern­ing data sub­jects based on auto­mated pro­cessing, includ­ing pro­fil­ing.

Rights of the data subject

Subject to the lim­it­a­tions provided by law, in par­tic­u­lar the Act on the Bar (Prawo o adwokaturze), data sub­jects have the fol­low­ing rights:

• the right to information, which is fulfilled, among other things, by this privacy policy,
• the right of access to data,
• the right to rectification,
• the right to erasure,
• the right to restriction of processing,
• the right to object, which may be exercised, among other things, if you do not wish to receive marketing information from the law office.

In matters relat­ing to the exer­cise of these rights, please contact us at lp.lagel-ikswokar@eciffo. In addi­tion, persons whose data we process have the right to lodge a com­plaint with the Pres­id­ent of the Per­sonal Data Pro­tec­tion Office (UODO).

Limited disclosure of information

Rakowski & Part­ners does not trans­fer, sell or lend col­lec­ted per­sonal data of users to other persons or insti­tu­tions, unless this takes place with the express consent or at the request of the user, results dir­ectly from the com­mis­sioned matter, or is required by author­ised state author­it­ies for the pur­poses of pro­ceed­ings con­duc­ted by them. We also do not trans­fer per­sonal data to coun­tries outside the European Eco­nomic Area, unless the com­mis­sioned matter so requires. In such cases we ensure an adequate level of pro­tec­tion of per­sonal data by apply­ing one of the grounds listed in Chapter V of the GDPR.

A recip­i­ent of the data may be an entity provid­ing hosting ser­vices to the Law Office.

Data retention periods

The law office stores data for the period jus­ti­fied by the purpose of pro­cessing, in par­tic­u­lar the per­form­ance of the legal engage­ment, and then for the period required by the con­trol­ler’s legal oblig­a­tions, includ­ing the Act on the Bar and the pro­vi­sions on civil liab­il­ity for the proper per­form­ance of oblig­a­tions related to the pur­poses of pro­cessing. Article 16c of the Act on the Bar requires per­sonal data col­lec­ted in con­nec­tion with pro­ceed­ings to be kept for 10 years from the end of the year in which the pro­ceed­ings ended.

Data provided through the contact form are kept until the cor­res­pond­ence has ended and then for the period res­ult­ing from legal pro­vi­sions or neces­sary for the estab­lish­ment, exer­cise or defence of legal claims.

Final provisions

Please note that under Article 16a of the Act on the Bar, the pro­vi­sions of the GDPR, includ­ing those con­cern­ing data sub­jects’ rights, apply only to the extent that they do not infringe the oblig­a­tion of attor­ney–client priv­ilege. Fur­ther­more, under that article, the right to object under Article 21(1) of the GDPR does not apply to per­sonal data obtained by an advoc­ate in con­nec­tion with the pro­vi­sion of legal assist­ance.

Sending a message through the contact form does not create an attor­ney–client rela­tion­ship. Please do not include con­fid­en­tial inform­a­tion in your message.

Cookies

This website pro­cesses inform­a­tion con­tained in cookies. Where inform­a­tion about users is col­lec­ted, only anonym­ous aggreg­ated data, not includ­ing per­sonal data, is col­lec­ted.

Cookies are IT data, in par­tic­u­lar text files, which are stored on the end device of the website user and are inten­ded for using the website. Cookies usually contain the name of the website they come from, their storage time on the end device and alpha­nu­meric para­met­ers.

The entity placing cookies on the user’s end device and obtain­ing access to them is the website oper­ator, Rakowski & Part­ners Law Office.

Cookies are used to:

• adapt the content of the website to the user’s preferences and optimise the use of the website; in particular, these files make it possible to recognise the user’s device and display the website properly, tailored to individual needs,
• create statistics that help us understand how users use the website, which makes it possible to improve its structure and content.

Two basic types of cookies are used on this website: session cookies and per­sist­ent cookies. Session cookies are tem­por­ary files stored on the user’s end device until logging out, leaving the website or closing the soft­ware (web browser). Per­sist­ent cookies are stored on the user’s end device for the time spe­cified in the cookie para­met­ers or until they are deleted by the user.

The fol­low­ing types of cookies are used on this website:

• “necessary” cookies, enabling the use of services available on the website, e.g. authentication cookies used for services requiring authentication,
• security cookies, e.g. used to detect abuse of authentication on the website,
• “performance” cookies, enabling the collection of information on how the website is used,
• “functional” cookies, enabling the website to “remember” settings selected by the user and personalise the user interface, e.g. the selected language or region, font size, appearance of the website, etc.

In many cases, web brows­ing soft­ware allows cookies to be stored on the user’s end device by default. Users can change their cookie set­tings at any time. These set­tings can be changed in par­tic­u­lar to block the auto­matic hand­ling of cookies in the web browser set­tings, to be informed each time cookies are placed on the device, or to delete cookies pre­vi­ously placed on the device. Detailed inform­a­tion on hand­ling cookies is avail­able in the soft­ware (web browser) set­tings.

The website oper­ator informs that restrict­ing the use of cookies may affect some of the func­tion­al­it­ies avail­able on the website.